Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screwball." In recent months labor had been lying low. But Joe was not fooled. It was with a very earnest intent to do something that Joe Ball wrote his labor laws. There were practical objections to some of them. Some industries, notably the garment trade, believed that industry-wide bargaining and the closed shop had brought peace and stability. In the once strife-torn garment industry there has not been an important strike in 14 years. Union leaders and even some employers predicted that Ball's bills would throw some industries into chaos. They referred to Ball...
...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...
Into the Nerves. Might a brain injection of this solution revive a dying patient with low blood pressure, weak pulse and feeble breathing? During World War II, Dr. Stern gave brain injections to shock victims given up for dead. The treatment was a dramatic success: of the first 383 "hopeless" cases, 302 recovered. By war's end, the treatment was standard in many Soviet hospitals...
...Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called Sinking-in-the-Ooze. The chief inhabitants...
...York Times is virtuous, and conscious of its virtue. It doesn't worry about its low place on the newsstands (third among Manhattan's four morning papers), but it occasionally deplores the low state of culture that causes that fact. Last week one of the Times's editors preached a little sermon on why four out of five New Yorkers prefer the tabloids at breakfast...